2. Marlborough Crescent bus station

Opened in the late-1920s, it served bus passengers travelling into North West Durham, Cumberland, Westmorland, and all points west along the Tyne Valley for six decades. The Centre for Life has stood there since 2000.

3. High Pit social club

Once dubbed the Palladium of the North, the likes of Showaddywaddy, Harry Secombe, Lulu, Des O’Connor, Tony Christie and Frankie Vaughan all headed for Northumberland and a date at Cramlington’s High Pit Club. In 1999 it became the short-lived Starlight Suite, before the building was demolished in 2005.

4. Newcastle Odeon

A 1995 photograph of the exterior of the Odeon cinema on Pilgrim Street

A recent departure from the city’s Pilgrim Street. Opened as the Paramount in 1931, and changing its name in 1939, generations of movie-goers headed to the Odeon until it closed in 2002. Standing as an empty shell for years, many were saddened by its demolition this year.

5. The nightlife of Whitley Bay

Thousands of revellers would swarm to the nightspots of Whitley Bay in the 1980s and 90s. It’s a bit quieter these day, but who remembers Sands nightclub, or Dunes Bar, or Rio’s wine bar - the latter opened by Cullercoats-born Duran Duran guitarist, Andy Taylor, in 1983.

6. The Leazes End

Fans in the Leazes End at St James' Park, Newcastle, in the 1970s (Image: handout publicity)

The famous terracing at St James’ Park was a mirror image of the Gallowgate End opposite, but it had a roof, which was erected during the 1929-30 season. By the 1970s, it was home to Newcastle United’s boisterous singing contingent. It could hold 15,000 standing fans and, looking back, was a health and safety nightmare - but it was fun at the time! It was bulldozed in 1978.

7. Handyside Arcade

The Handyside Arcade in Newcastle, January 28, 1960

A Newcastle Edwardian shopping curiosity built in 1906. From the 1960s to the 1980s it attracted music fans and a sometimes hippyish crowd to its warren of unique small stores, such as Kard Bar and Fynd. It was knocked down in the late 1980s to make way for Eldon Garden retail mall.

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8. Woolworth

Woolworth, Northumberland Street, Newcastle (Image: NCJ Archive)

‘Woolie’s’ was a familiar sight on every North East high street for almost 100 years, but in December 2008, the pick-and-mix sweets, children’s clothes, board games and hardware items went on sale for the very last time.

9. La Strada

Opened in 1961, South Shields’ first big nightclub, La Strada, was a magnet for revellers. Some of the stars who appeared there included Roy Castle, Jimmy Tarbuck, Roger Whittaker and The Shadows. By the 1990s it was in decline, and it was demolished and replaced in the mid-2000s by an ornamental public garden.

10. The Rupali restaurant

Rupali in Newcastle's Bigg Market

And we finish with a curry. The award-winning Rupali, in Newcastle’s Bigg Market, opened in 1977. Its owner, Abdul Latif - aka Lord Harpole - was one of the city’s more lively characters and he served great food. Sadly, he passed away in 2008, aged just 52. Today a curry restaurant called Taj Palace trades on the site of the former Rupali.